November 10, 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11-5:30pm; Anthropology Seminar Room

(Meeting agenda)


Chad Hazlet, "Angry or Weary? The Effect of Personal Violence on Attitudes Towards Peace in Darfur"

Brett Carter, "Expanding the Governing Coalition: "Unite and Rule", Loyalist Monitoring, and the Sorcery Masonic Lodge"

Mariaflavia Harari and Eliana La Ferrara, "Conflict, Climate and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis"

James Long, "The Determinants of Ethnic Voting"

Marcella Alsan, "The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development"




March 30, 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12-6pm; Milikan Room (E53-482)

(Meeting agenda)


Robert Bates (with Steven Block), "Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth"

J. Andrew Harris, "Stain Removal: Measuring the Effect of Violence on Local Ethnic Demography in Kenya"

Michael Kremer (with Esther Duflo and Pascaline Dupas), "School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools"

Daniel N. Posner (with Eric Kramon), "Ethnic Favoritism in Primary Education in Kenya"

Tristan Reed (with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson), "Chiefs"